Jurassic Park Discovery Center

Enter the welcome center for John Hammond’s Jurassic Park to learn more about these animals, in a variety of faux museum exhibits, including a dinosaur egg hatching area. This is a walk-through where you can explore at your own pace, or simply kill a little time to escape Orlando’s summer heat.

Reviews

While they're may be no massive technological thrills to be found here, The Discovery Center is another one of those often overlooked gems that Universal Creative seems to do so well with. The building hosts a small variety of interactive games and exhibits, akin to an Epcot attraction post-show but with just a little extra kick. This kick being the spontaneous raptor egg hatchings. An incredibly modest and simple show that still manages to capture the imagination.

Love eating here and then exploring. It really makes me feel as if I'm in Jurassic Park, especially with the Raptor babies that hatch! It also feels like an old school EPCOT pavilion, but about dinosaurs.

9/14/2012: Despite the outdated description above, the center is open and fully operational. They tried to create an Epcot-like exploration center, with computer kiosks to meld your face with a dinosaur's (mine didn't work), opportunities to "see" and "hear" the way a dinosaur would, and a fossil wall where you can use a pretend scanner to find out more about the embedded fossils. Definitely the main draw was the hatching of a raptor egg, with a comical narration by a "scientist" and a tiny, cute animatronic dino. Could have been improved by the dino taking a nip out of the guy's finger. Provided a brief respite from the passing showers outside.